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Infinite Jest a Novel by Wallace, David Foster is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com Review In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves. From Publishers Weekly With its baroque subplots, zany political satire, morbid, cerebral humor and astonishing range of cultural references, Wallace's brilliant but somewhat bloated dirigible of a second novel (after The Broom in the System) will appeal to steadfast readers of Pynchon and Gaddis. But few others will have the stamina for it. Set in an absurd yet uncanny near-future, with a cast of hundreds and close to 400 footnotes, Wallace's story weaves between two surprisingly similar locales: Ennet House, a halfway-house in the Boston Suburbs, and the adjacent Enfield Tennis Academy. It is the "Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" (each calendar year is now subsidized by retail advertising); the U.S. and Canada have been subsumed by the Organization of North American Nations, unleashing a torrent

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Author
Wallace, David Foster
Publisher
Hachette Digital, Inc.
Published
1996
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction
Rating
4.4 / 5 (5,366 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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